On 12/3/05, Karl Wick <karlwick(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This idea has me pretty excited: what about students
filming or audio
recording lectures and uploading them as supplementary material for
textbooks? The audio/video material will itself not be immediately wiki-able
but could be available on the site for reference and future editing. Anyone
out there know of intellectual property questions? Is there any problem
taping a lecture and uploading it? Does it depend on whether the
teacher/prof gives permission, or the school, or what?
I'd love to see a free resource like this within Wikimedia. It may fit
in better with Wikisource than Wikibooks, since, like source texts,
the main aim wouldn't necessarily be to edit the videos (though there
would some advantage in being able to merge parts of different lessons
together). There again, if the upload limit at Commons doesn't get in
the way, storing them there could also work. I'm not sure what the
best place for the transcriptions would be if people were keen to make
those (it would help in making the videos searchable).
In terms of copyright, you'd need either permission of the lecturer or
of the school, depending on their employment contract and whether
their work is regarded a "work for hire" where the school claims the
copyright. If you're recording student's questions during the lesson,
you'd also need their permission.
Angela.